Title |
Evidence for conservation and sustainable use in a fragment of the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil by a traditional human group
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Published in |
SpringerPlus, September 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/2193-1801-1-21 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Alexandre Gabriel Christo, Rejan R Guedes-Bruni, Felipe de Araújo Pinto Sobrinho, Ary Gomes da Silva, Ariane Luna Peixoto |
Abstract |
The use of forest resources by a rural community adjacent to a Biological Reserve was examined using quantitative methods based on the consensus of six local specialists. Plants with trunk diameters at 1.3 m above soil level (DBH) ≥ 5 cm were sampled in 0.5 ha of forest and their use-value (UV) were calculated and associated with their structural descriptors. A total of 129 species were identified, and 69 of them having known uses. The species with largest UV were: Xylopia sericea, Lecythis lanceolata and Guarea macrophylla. The results demonstrated that neither the degree of recognition of taxa by the local specialists nor their use-versatility depended on their abundance in nature. The results corroborate the hypothesis that richness of a plant family is a predictive character of its cultural importance and the community recognizes the value of conserving the forest remnants. |
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Uganda | 1 | 3% |
Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
Kenya | 1 | 3% |
Brazil | 1 | 3% |
United States | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 30 | 86% |
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Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 17% |
Researcher | 5 | 14% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 11% |
Professor | 4 | 11% |
Other | 3 | 9% |
Other | 9 | 26% |
Unknown | 4 | 11% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 40% |
Environmental Science | 9 | 26% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 6% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 3% |
Unspecified | 1 | 3% |
Other | 2 | 6% |
Unknown | 6 | 17% |